Commander McCampbell led his fighter planes against a force of 80 Japanese carrier-based aircraft bearing down on our fleet on 19 June 1944
Measuring 422 mm with its scabbard on
marker and silver hallmarked on bottom
with a NSKK eagle machine woven in aluminum thread on an apple-green (District/Gruppe Thüringen) backer
marked with the Royal coat-of-arms and maker marked "TOYS
Germany, Wehrmacht. An Eastern Front Medal Archive Commander McCampbell led his fighter(Ostmedaille). Constructed of silvered and patinated zink, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised Heer style German national eagle clutching a swastika, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of WINTERSCHLACHT IM OSTEN 1941 42 (WINTER BATTLE IN THE EAST 1941 42), above a crossed sword and laurel branch, topped by a Stahlhelm and stick grenade, unmarked, measuring 35. 70 mm (w) x 44. 70 mm (h), weighing